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A Booming Furniture Design Sub-Genre: Gun-Concealing Furniture

By Rain Noe - August 5, 2014

in Furniture Design

Some people love guns, some people hate 'em. But the fact is that lots of Americans have them, and they need a place to store them. And the design of gun storage furniture has two main requirements seemingly at odds with each other: Gun owners want their firearms readily accessible, yet they don't want them out in the open where children or burglars can get to them.

The current solution is to create furniture with hideaway compartments (a sub-genre we looked briefly at here), as New Jersey Concealment Furniture does. And if web traffic is any indication (140,000-plus Facebook likes, 30,000 website hits last Saturday alone), business is booming for the Jersey-based company. Founder Dan Ingram designs and builds coat racks, end tables, nightstands, coffee tables, wall shelves and even clocks that secretively stow the end-user's firearm of choice.

"I love making this stuff," Ingram told local paper The Hunterdon County Democrat, even while detailing his struggles to keep up with demand. Ingram had run a home remodeling business that flatlined after the recession, before striking upon this largely untapped niche in the furniture market.

Ingram designs all of his pieces to lock mechanically, with either hidden electronic keypads, conventional keys, remote electronic key fobs or the old hidden-magnet trick. One thing he doesn't mess around with is fingerprint sensors: "If your hands are sweaty or a lady has lotion on her hands," he explains, "they don't work."

To see more of Ingram's stuff, check out NJconceal.com.

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Personsson

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As a western European industrial designer I find this post extremely forbidding and depressing post which makes me wanna puke. Please continue spreading great design updates but keep these rotten metastases of lost humanities away from the one's who "hate 'em".

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Urban Green

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Very cool!

Totally agree with Splodge... you can learn something from just about any idea - BUT you have to actually be presented the idea first (in order to learn anything from it). Personsson - you need to expand your views and stop spouting your limited political thoughts into the works of others.
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I am a Designer in the USA and I own 100 guns. I have so many I have to stuff them in my safe. The only reason I do not by anymore right now is I will then need a new safe. Guns are a big thing in the USA. There is A LOT, A LOT of money to be made selling accessories for guns. People want there guns secure from there kids and people that break into homes but at the same time they want to have instance access to them if they hear glass breaking.
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Splodge

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@Personsson

As another Western European Designer - get over yourself. They may not be the usual fare here, but these designs are interesting and inspiring. You might not like the objects these are designed to hold, but there's plenty of information to be taken from this post, from the cultural to the practical.
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